Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "The Mystery of the Pyramids' Construction" video.

  1. People who claim to have “the truth” almost always don’t.
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  2. They are known to be cut stone, at least the ones that can be seen.
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  3. The pyramid shown at 1:31 is not Khufu, it is the central one.
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  4. No, the interior blocks are granite.
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  5. It will never be known in detail how it was built, because there are no detailed records.
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  6. The four faces have a slight dent down the middle. That is not complex. It is just a point of interest.
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  7. He didn’t say that, only that moving the individual stones was comparable.
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  8. Sure. A theory has to be comprehensive — a plausible explanation for every problem needed to be overcome.
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  9. Casablanca
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  10. The ramp problem has been analyzed by everyone who looks at this problem. Taking into account the distance from the river and the height of the pyramid, the consensus is that a straight ramp to the pyramid could only reach about one-third of the height of the pyramid. The question is whether an internal ramp was built of stone for the upper levels, or a method of jacking the stones up the steps was used. Perhaps a combination of an internal ramp for the middle third, then jacks near the top.
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  11. Not really. To be a theory, a proposed method has to be comprehensive and plausible.
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  12. A “mystery” is not a “miracle.” It just means we don’t know how it was done.
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  13. That is an insignificant detail. The dent in the faces wasn’t even noticed until people started flying.
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  14. The angle is close to arctan(4/π).
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  15. It depends on how many people are working on it. Physicists have looked at that and calculated that about one-half of one percent of the population could have built the great pyramid in that time.
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  16. A ramp doesn’t work for the upper 2/3 of the pyramid because the ramp becomes larger than the pyramid itself.
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  17. Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca (1993)
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  18. Not feasible.
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  19. Not plausible for lifting the stones up the pyramid as it was built. Herodotus wrote that they were jacked up using a wooden machine of some sort, and that is plausible.
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  20. Why not? They are piles of rocks.
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  21. We certainly could. It is a trivial structure compared to the large structures we build today. The only problem is economic. There is just no reason to build a large pile of rocks worth the expense.
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  22. Wooden tools would have decayed or been burnt. Metal tools would have been melted down to make newer tools.
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  23. jacks
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  24. No, humans were not larger. We have found remains of ancient humans. They had to have raised the blocks using some form of leverage.
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  25. Only the Great Pyramid has 8 “sides,” and they aren’t really sides. Each of the four faces is just slightly recessed along the center line.
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  26. Any geologist can tell the diffence between stone and concrete.
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  27. It doesn’t work.
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  28. Herodotus wrote that it took twenty years to build, but he might have been wrong. He wrote much later.
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  29. That’s not an answer. You have a lot more to explain with that hypothesis than with any theory based on the hypothesis that ancient Egyptians built them, but you haven’t even tried.
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  30. They were built thousands of years ago. Maybe the plans were lost. Perhaps they were in the Library at Alexandria.
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  31. They are known to be stone.
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  32. Almost 4000 years.
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  33. Not I. It isn’t pefect throughout. Look at a closeup of the rough exterior of the Great Pyramid. The blocks are quite rough. Only the vertical dimension needs to be carefully cut and finished to the right size to keep each tier level. The casing blocks would have been made precise and adjusted to fit snugly, but most interior stones would not be so critical.
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  34. Grit is placed in the groove which does the actual cutting.
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  35. Don’t believe everything you read. Geologists know what stones were used.
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  36. True, but it’s a steep ramp either eay, if you intend to just pull blocks up the slope.
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  37. They didn’t need a boat for each rock. They would probably have been rafts, and one raft would have been reused many times.
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  38. impractical
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  39. Nobody thinks it was built in two years.
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  40. hogwash
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